Impeachment hasn't seemed to work for us in the past...cyrax9April 23 2009, 10:08:30 UTC
...so why would it work against Fmr. President Bush? I mean, look at whose been impeached at the Presidential level: Johnson and Clinton; that's it. Impeachment is only part of the process; it's the equivalent of an indictment. The other portion of the impeachment process is imprisonment. Johnson narrowly escaped conviction/imprisonment by the Senate, and Clinton's trial in the Senate was one giant joke; we knew he wouldn't be imprisoned, and the most that the trial yielded was that "blowjobs aren't sex" (thank you U.S. Supreme Court) and that what Clinton did was "distasteful," but "not illegal."
The only person I can think of who was in a similar situation was Fmr. Pres. Bush was Richard Nixon, and he resigned before they could impeach him; whose to say Bush wouldn't have done the same thing? In fact, I hate to admit it, but it's better this way. Let the facts come out; let's get more torture memos released, and let's show the people how horrible the past administration was. Obama doesn't want to prosecute Bush officials--good; that means that the house and the Senate can do that, or a committee can, or UN lawmakers can try him for war crimes. This is the ideal way to handle things; the Republicans can't legitimately blame the Democrats for partisan prosecution, especially if it's out of a UN war crimes hearing, and the Democrats can't do anything stupid/partisan in the prosecution of Bush Administration officials.
The Bush Administration used waterboarding, a tactic we sentenced Nazi's to death for using at the Nuremberg trials; let the UN get a war crimes conviction out of that. Oh, and we're getting more proof that said waterboarding was used to force a link between 9/11 and Iraq; in other words we're finding hard evidence that Bush Administration officials purposely mislead us.
And D, you know me, you know I'm no fan of George W. Bush. That idiot gave Texas a bad name and then did the same for all of us. Sadly, his equally idiotic replacement as governor seems to be outdoing him in the "giving Texas a bad name" department. Then again, you know the old joke: "Texas, too small for a country, to big for an insane asylum." I can think of several awesome things that came out of Texas (let's just start with ID Software and go from there,) but I can also think of several problems that Texas has given us...like Bush.
The only person I can think of who was in a similar situation was Fmr. Pres. Bush was Richard Nixon, and he resigned before they could impeach him; whose to say Bush wouldn't have done the same thing? In fact, I hate to admit it, but it's better this way. Let the facts come out; let's get more torture memos released, and let's show the people how horrible the past administration was. Obama doesn't want to prosecute Bush officials--good; that means that the house and the Senate can do that, or a committee can, or UN lawmakers can try him for war crimes. This is the ideal way to handle things; the Republicans can't legitimately blame the Democrats for partisan prosecution, especially if it's out of a UN war crimes hearing, and the Democrats can't do anything stupid/partisan in the prosecution of Bush Administration officials.
The Bush Administration used waterboarding, a tactic we sentenced Nazi's to death for using at the Nuremberg trials; let the UN get a war crimes conviction out of that. Oh, and we're getting more proof that said waterboarding was used to force a link between 9/11 and Iraq; in other words we're finding hard evidence that Bush Administration officials purposely mislead us.
And D, you know me, you know I'm no fan of George W. Bush. That idiot gave Texas a bad name and then did the same for all of us. Sadly, his equally idiotic replacement as governor seems to be outdoing him in the "giving Texas a bad name" department. Then again, you know the old joke: "Texas, too small for a country, to big for an insane asylum." I can think of several awesome things that came out of Texas (let's just start with ID Software and go from there,) but I can also think of several problems that Texas has given us...like Bush.
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